Hernandez wins San Leandro council seat

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San Leandro City Council candidate Ed Hernandez, speaking to Hayward Area Democratic Club members at a Sept. 30, 2016 forum at the Eden Area Democratic Headquarters in downtown Hayward, took an early lead in his bid for the District 2 seat. (Darin Moriki/Bay Area News Group)

Realtor Ed Hernandez won the District 2 seat in the San Leandro City Council’s only contested race Tuesday.

Hernandez had 8,207 votes, or 54.2 percent, to city Recreation and Parks Commissioner Bryan Azevedo’s 6,857 votes, or 45.2 percent, in the southeastern part of the city.

District 2 incumbent Ursula Reed was termed out.

For District 4 in southwestern San Leandro, incumbent Benny Lee ran unopposed. In northwestern District 6, San Leandro Personnel Relations Board member Pete Ballew also ran unopposed in succeeding Councilman Jim Prola, who was termed out.

Azevedo, 39, said in his candidate statement that he intends to keep the city affordable. Assemblyman Rob Bonta and Lee both endorsed him.

Hernandez, 40, who was on the city’s planning commission and the board of the Chamber of Commerce, said he intends to attract technology and advanced manufacturing businesses and jobs.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said there was nothing wrong with the officials expressing “private political views via private text messages.” Strzok, in particular, “did not say anything about Donald Trump that the majority of Americans weren’t also thinking at the same time,” he said.